Defense lawyer sent to prison for money laundering

Published 8:43 AM EDT Nov 01, 2012

BOSTON -

A well-known defense lawyer who has tried several high-profile murder cases in Norfolk County is headed to prison himself for laundering drug money.

U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton on Wednesday sentenced Robert A. George, 57, of Westwood, to serve 3 1/2 years in prison for conspiring with a former client to launder more than $225,000 in drug money, the Patriot Ledger reported.

Ronald Dardinski, a former Rockland resident and client of George, was working as an informant and recorded conversations he had with George from early 2009 to 2011.

George was convicted in June.

Among his more high-profile clients included Christopher McCowen, who was convicted of stabbing to death Hingham native Christa Worthington in her Truro home in 2002, and Daniel Holland of Quincy, who is in prison for bludgeoning his wife to death in 1998.

Other clients: former New England mob boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme of Sharon and Edward O’Brien, the Somerville teen convicted of the brutal stabbing death of his best friend’s mother in 1995.

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